UK Supreme Court.
The final court of appeal for civil cases from all three UK jurisdictions, and for criminal cases from England & Wales and Northern Ireland. It replaced the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords in 2009.
Case law · United Kingdom
The UK's case law, answered with citations you can open.
Ask about the law anywhere in the UK in plain language. LexChat draws on reported cases and legislation from all three UK legal systems and pins every proposition to a citation you can open.
Why it holds up
Answers you can check, not trust.
The United Kingdom is one state with three distinct legal systems — England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland — and a UK-wide apex court sitting above them. A case may bind in one jurisdiction and merely persuade in another, while Acts of the UK Parliament sit alongside devolved legislation. Working out which layer governs your question is half the research battle.
LexChat retrieves from the UK's reported cases and legislation first and reasons only over what it actually found. Whether your authority comes from the UK Supreme Court — which replaced the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords in 2009 — or from a court below it, the answer arrives pinned to sources you can open and verify before you rely on them.
The court system
United Kingdom's courts, ready to query.
Courts of England & Wales.
The Court of Appeal and the High Court hear the most influential English and Welsh cases, with the Crown Court handling serious criminal trials below them.
Courts of Scotland.
The Court of Session is Scotland's supreme civil court and the High Court of Justiciary its supreme criminal court — the final court of appeal for Scottish criminal cases.
Courts of Northern Ireland.
The Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland comprises the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the Crown Court, with county and magistrates' courts sitting below.
How it works
From question to authority in three steps.
Ask in plain language.
Describe the issue the way you would to a colleague — no query syntax, no database codes, no guessing at keywords.
Retrieval before reasoning.
LexChat searches UK sources first, and reasons only over what it actually found.
Citations you can open.
Answers arrive pinned to decisions and provisions. Open the source, confirm the holding, and cite it with confidence.
Go deeper
Coverage beyond United Kingdom.
All 30 jurisdictions
LexChat case-law research is live across Africa, the UK and Ireland, Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
OpenEngland & Wales case law
Ask LexChat about English and Welsh decisions and legislation — answers arrive with pinned, checkable citations.
OpenScotland case law
Ask LexChat about Scots decisions and legislation — answers arrive with pinned, checkable citations.
OpenKenya regulatory coverage
Where coverage goes deepest: five published regulatory packs with obligations, deadlines and verified citations.
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